{"id":491391,"date":"2010-03-30T20:07:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T00:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0133ec57f3ac970b"},"modified":"2010-03-31T03:10:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T07:10:54","slug":"legendary-east-l-a-math-teacher-jaime-escalante-dies-at-79-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491391","title":{"rendered":"Legendary East L.A. math teacher Jaime Escalante dies at 79 [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-jaime-escalante31-2010mar31,0,7083760.story\" style=\"FLOAT: right\"><img decoding=\"async\" (warner=\"\" 1988.=\"\" alt=\"Photo: Actor Edward James Olmos, left, compares notes with teacher Jaime Escalante during the filming of \" and=\"\" associated=\"\" bros.=\"\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310ffef8de970c \" credit:=\"\" deliver=\"\" in=\"\" press)=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310ffef8de970c-320wi\" stand=\"\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px\" title=\"Photo: Actor Edward James Olmos, left, compares notes with teacher Jaime Escalante during the filming of \" \/><\/a> Legendary Garfield High School math teacher Jaime Escalante, who was immortalized in the film &quot;Stand and Deliver,&quot; died Tuesday afternoon <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/mar\/07\/local\/la-me-escalante7-2010mar07\">after battling cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Escalante died at 2:27 p.m. at the home of his son, Jaime Jr., in Roseville, Calif., said actor Edward James Olmos, who portrayed Escalante in the film.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren,&quot; said Olmos, who drove Escalante from a Reno hospital Monday night to Roseville.<\/p>\n<p>Olmos said he was notified by the family several minutes after Escalante died.<\/p>\n<p>Escalante, 79, helped turn the math program at the East Los Angeles high school into one of the top programs in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Updated at 5:50 p.m.:<\/strong> \u201cHe did so much for so many people. And he did it with such grace and dignity,\u201d Olmos said. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Escalante is survived by his wife, Fabiola; his sons, Fernando and Jaime Jr.; and six grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p>Read Times staff writer Elaine Woo&#39;s full obituary: J<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/obituaries\/la-me-jaime-escalante31-2010mar31,0,7083760.story\" title=\"jaime escalante obituary\">aime Escalante dies at 79; math teacher who challenged East L.A. students to &#39;Stand and Deliver&#39;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Actor Edward James Olmos, left, compares notes with teacher Jaime Escalante during the filming of &quot;Stand And Deliver&quot; in 1988. Credit: (Warner Bros. \/ Associated Press)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Garfield High School math teacher Jaime Escalante, who was immortalized in the film &quot;Stand and Deliver,&quot; died Tuesday afternoon after battling cancer. Escalante died at 2:27 p.m. at the home of his son, Jaime Jr., in Roseville, Calif., said actor Edward James Olmos, who portrayed Escalante in the film. &quot;He was surrounded by his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}